GeoFish: Mexico, Vol. 1 chronicles adventure fishing travel in first of new feature film series GEOFISH Trailer from MOTIV FISHING on Vimeo. For the next seven years, Costa’s GeoFish project will be about one thing: exploration. GeoFish follows a vegetable oil powered adventure fly fishing quest around the world, with the team in search of…

I got a call from Tim last week. Tim was one of the first people to check this little site out when I first started. We’d talked about fishing before but schedules for me are almost always crappy. He let me know he had some health stuff going on and wanted to get on the…

So this is a bit different from the norm for Pile Cast but myself and a handful of other bloggers sat in on a call with Dave Perkins of Orvis and Elizabeth Maclin of Trout Unlimited to hear about the new project to open 1,000 miles of water over next decade that will focus on…

Got an awesome package in the mail last night. James Durbin ties some big flies for big fish. I’ve had the pleasure of watching James tie up some flies at Indy on the Fly two years in a row. Can’t wait to see what this year brings. I bought one of his flies and a…

This has been in the works for a few months and I’m psyched I can finally talk about it. Some folks might have noticed recently that a Regal Vise has shown up in my photos on here. Here’s why. I received a call from Michael McAuliffe awhile ago asking me if I’d be interested in…

I got an awesome package in the mail yesterday. Musky obsessed fly tying bad ass Matt Grajewski sent these wrapped in a paper plate (which is a great way to ship big flies by the way). These are some sick flies. I’ve had them on my desk all night just so I can pick them…

Soon, very soon I’ll be casting flies the size of small children in the hopes of sticking a freshwater version of Jaws. It’s been a few years since I last attempted to land the infamous water wolf. I’ve been getting ready this weekend by tying some flies and drinking beer. I also drank some egg…

Sometimes you find something on the internet that deserves the title epic. I found Strip’n Flywear the other day and after checking their store I was right. Inspired by Banksy, Thrasher skate mag, and other random pieces of awesomeness – this is a little company that deserves some love. The Thrasher inspired logo caught my…